Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262050AbVAZCUQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:20:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262068AbVAZCUQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:20:16 -0500 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.198]:60642 "EHLO moskovskaya.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262050AbVAZCUL (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:20:11 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 03:20:04 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Evgeniy Polyakov Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1 Message-ID: <20050126022004.GA25350@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20050124021516.5d1ee686.akpm@osdl.org> <20050125125323.GA19055@infradead.org> <1106662284.5257.53.camel@uganda> <20050125142356.GA20206@infradead.org> <1106666690.5257.97.camel@uganda> <58cb370e050125073464befe4@mail.gmail.com> <1106669087.5257.100.camel@uganda> <20050125182110.GA23317@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20050126001734.34297f5b@zanzibar.2ka.mipt.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20050126001734.34297f5b@zanzibar.2ka.mipt.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1101 Lines: 26 On Wed, 26 January 2005 00:17:34 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > That will catch only simple cases - for the whole picture you need > to run graph generator from all allowed code pathes, but that > will require knowledge of the tested system, so it will not and > actually can not be absolutely generic. Oh, we both agree on that, although we used different words. The design actually is as simple as outlined, the messy part is getting the complete call graph of the kernel in the first place. I have a good deal of that part done, but the code is ugly and there are legal issues... but it shows that it's quite possible to do. J?rn -- My second remark is that our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/